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SCHAEFER, NOTED SNOWMAKER, TO SPEAK AT TRI COUNTY MEETINGSNOWMAKER—Di* Vincent J. Schaefer, General Electric weather scientist, who will speak at the annual meeting of Tn County Weather Research next Tuesday at Condon. Dr. Schaefer is shown here making snow in a home freerer, one of the r xpoiirnents which proved weather modification was possible.Dr Vincent J. Schaefer, famed General Electric Research Labor ittoiy Weather scientist, will speak next Tuesday June 30, at in a m, at the third annual meeting of the Trl-County Weather Research organisation, The meeting will be held in the I go Grange hall, five miles west of i CondonDr Schaefer is described as one of Die nation's foremost rneteoro logbsls He Is one of the few men in history to actually do something about*' the weather On !Nov 13. 1946. he gained wide* spread attention as the first per '»on to turn a cloud to snow using laboratories when he transferred a cloud over Pittsfield, Moss, into snow streamers by seeding it I with dry ice fragments from anairplane.It had been on a hot day ini July l!M6. that he first artifkally produced snow in a home freezer In hi- laboratory. With his co-worker, Dr. Irving Lstngmulr, he determined ifiat dry-tee particles, dropping through a supercooled or below* freezing liquid cloud, chill portions of the cloud suffi ciently for ice nuclei to form spontaneously. Cloud w a t e r droplets immediately crystallize upon the nuclei and grow Into snow crystals.Their weather modification studies since have shown that cloud seeding holds great prom iso for modifying certain clouds. Hi n lii sin; in and hurricanes, preventing hail and dissipating tContinued on page 8)
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Heppner, Oregon, US
Thu, Jun 25, 1953
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